J.K. Rowling recently overhauled her official website. If you are a Harry Potter fan, it is definitely worth a look.

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Say it isn't so! Noah Wyle is going to star in a tv movie called The Librarian. I quote:

ER star Noah Wyle will play the overly smart curator of an ususual library where magical items are stored. After one of the library's items is taken and not returned, the librarian seeks the assistance of a young female martial artist to help him recover the overdue artifact.

You don't return your overdue item and the sick a ninja on your ass? Hee hee hee hee hee hee........ Okay, I'll stop laughing now. I would totally watch this if it wasn't for Noah Wyle playing the librarian. Except for when he plays Dr. Carter on ER, watching him usually leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I still have nightmares about the time Kiley forced us to go see The Myth of Fingerprints.

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Is the ability to never be fully happy. I just now helped a patron print out an application for Extreme Makeover. While helping her my patron volunteered (I did not ask) that the application was for her and it was her dream to be on the show. This woman so does not need to go on this show, but who am I to kill a dream?

Out of curiosity I decided to take a look at the application and see what kind of questions they ask. Some of the questions seemed kind of bizarre to me:

23) If chosen to be on the program, is there any person or part of your life that you would prefer not to share on-camera (i.e. Social organizations, activities, friends, family)? If so, please describe:
Isn't the point of doing reality tv to share everything?

43) Do you have any sexually transmitted diseases? If so, please describe:
Why? Is there a way to make those over too?

44) When was the last time you hit, punched, kicked or threw something in anger? Provide details.
Is this question suppose to weed out the unstable people? Who would answer truthfully to this?

48) Is there anyone else you would like to nominate for an Extreme Makeover?
Who would nominate someone they know for this? I can just imagine the ass kicking I would get from some of my friends.

Now that I think about it, Michelle keeps saying that she wants to be on What Not To Wear. She probably just wants some free clothes though.

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Monday night my library's board met to approve some radical changes in service. Since I have been contacted by friends, students, acquaintances, etc. to see how I am doing and what is going on, I thought I would address it here.

As I have lamented before, voters in our fair village turned down an increase in our tax rate during the March election. With the new budget beginning July 1, all of knew that there would be some changes ahead of us. After soliciting input from staff, the board has elected to make the following changes:

1) The library will be closed Monday and Wednesday nights
2) The library will be charging an annual fee to access the Internet
3) Two staff positions have been completely abolished (not me)
4) One staff member is being moved to a different department (again, not me)

There are other normal/expected changes (raised fines, slashed book budgets, etc.), but the above are the major changes we will be struggling with once we reach the July 1 start date.

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After my trip to Cleveland this weekend to visit Michelle and the wee baby, all I really planned on bringing back with me were some bargains from the outlet center in Lodi. Not only did I bring back some fun bargains (including MaryJanice Davidson's new, kick ass book), I somehow managed to bring back the cold that the Kraft family has been passing around. My throat feels like crap from coughing all night. Luckily the only conversation I had this morning on the desk was with our fake deaf man, so that was carried out on paper.

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This quarter I've been making my students blog. What they blog about is totally up to them, so one student decided to blog about little known bands. Her latest find has to be the strangest one ever.

Muscle Factory is the world's first and only rock hard body building band dedicated to pumping you up (or so there website says). This band plays music on a stage filled with exercise equipment and actually invite their fans to jump on stage and weightlift. Their set list includes songs like "Pump to Failure," "When You Pump, You're Powerful," and "The Spotter."

For anyone looking to get The LibraryDiva a kickass scary birthday gift next year, tickets to one of their shows would be perfect!

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I'm trying to calm down right now, and I'm not really succeeding. After hours of being a complete buttmunch to me our habitually drunk patron just called me honey. And he was patronizing when he did it. Now I will accept some of our older patrons calling me honey, sweetie, or anything else they would like to call me as long as they are being NICE. But DrunkGuy isn't older or nice, he's just drunk and stupid. It took everything I had in me to keep myself from jumping over the desk and jacking him.

And if I didn't hate people enough, one of our staff members just caught the patron who told us he was profoundly deaf hearing. Is it because Sarai has super powers? No. The dumbass has been turning around all night to shush her. What the hell?

It feels good to be back blogging. Since I just whined now, I'll wait until tomorrow to whine about why I haven't been blogging.

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